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-title: icyphox's blog
+title: icyphox
 # note the trailing slash!
 url: "https://icyphox.sh/"
 desc: "Computers, security and computer security."

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 subtitle: About me.
 ---
 
-![anirudh](https://x.icyphox.sh/9rUNl.jpeg)
-
-I'm Anirudh Oppiliappan, but you'll often find me as **icyphox** (or
-just **icy**), on the Internet.
+I'm Anirudh Oppiliappan, a doer of computery things. You'll often find
+me as **icyphox** (or just **icy**), on the Internet. I work at
+[Ory](https://ory.sh) as a Systems Reliability Engineer.
 
 ## contact
 
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-I generally always reply within the day. Alternative means of
-communication, like my phone number, are only given out on a
-need-to-know basis.
+I'm also available on IRC as `icy` on [libera.chat](https://libera.chat)
+and [rizon.net](https://rizon.net).
 
 Some of my links:
 
@@ -30,7 +28,7 @@ - [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=icy)
 - [Steam](https://steamcommunity.com/id/icyphox)
 - [GitHub](https://github.com/icyphox)
 
-The only social media I actively use is the fediverse:
+The only social media I somewhat actively use is the fediverse:
 https://toot.icyphox.sh/@x
 
 If you're interested in **hiring me** -- here's my

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+---
+template:
+slug: 2021-in-review
+title: 2021 in review
+subtitle: The post-year ramble is here, slightly late this time
+date: 2022-01-10
+---
+
+The last year was quite eventful to say the least, and I'd been putting
+off on writing this retrospective simply because of the sheer number of
+things that happened/I did, of varying levels of importance -- both to
+you as a reader, and me as... well, the one who experienced them. 
+
+I'll try to highlight the major ones here -- they're also the ones I'm
+okay to discuss publicly, so there's that. As for the rest: they'll
+serve as conversation fuel for 2022.
+
+## I graduated... barely
+
+After 4 long years, mostly "learning" about things that haven't been
+used since like, my mom was born (I'm looking at you Intel 8086), I am
+now a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering. I say
+barely because I actually did pretty terribly. I'm still mildly
+surprised that given my GPA, the degree certificate classifies it as a
+"First Class". I think they just sorry for us lot.
+
+Was it a waste of time? A lot of the coursework, sadly, was. But my time
+in college -- however little -- was actually quite fun. One thing's for
+sure: I can't rewind time to see what would've happened had I _not_ done
+the degree; but now I've done it, and here we are. Wherever that is.
+Maybe it helped, maybe it didn't. Oh well.
+
+## my time at DeepSource
+
+This time last year (January 2021), I joined
+[DeepSource](https://deepsource.io) as a Security Engineer (SRE on
+paper). Suffice to say, I had an excellent time there, working with some
+equally excellent people. I got to touch a whole bunch of systems:
+ranging from observability pipelines, mesh networks in Kubernetes,
+cloud-native security, and some more Kubernetes.
+
+Oh, and here are a few pictures from our trip to the Maldives.[^1]
+
+![maldives 1](https://x.icyphox.sh/FX~bI.jpg)
+![maldives 2](https://x.icyphox.sh/DMHDG.jpg)
+
+[^1]:  If you're in Bangalore and are looking for work, definitely
+    consider [applying to DeepSource](https://careers.deepsource.io)!
+
+In December 2021, I decided to leave DeepSource in favor of other
+opportunities. I must say, I will deeply miss my equity when DeepSource
+eventually becomes a unicorn -- and I'm confident they will! As for the
+other opportunities, I will write about that in a future post. This is a
+_retrospective_ after all.[^2]
+
+[^2]: There are hints... in various places...
+
+## projects and hacks
+
+Probably my biggest and most fun project this year was
+[forlater.email](https://forlater.email). Both the site, and its
+[technical breakdown](/blog/building-forlater) frontpaged on Hacker News
+and was pretty well received. In hindsight, I should've included some
+kind of payment model, but at the same time, being flexible enough to
+accomodate those that can't afford to pay. And the code is shit. I'll
+probably rewrite it. Eventually.[^3]
+
+[^3]: Sure, lol.
+
+My attempt at running [Kubernetes at home](/blog/k8s-at-home), while
+being super fun, failed miserably. I learnt a ton from it however, and I
+have no regrets. Setting up a Wireguard mesh manually, bootstrapping a
+cluster using `kubeadm`, multi-arch considerations, etc. I do sorely
+miss the declarative-ness of it all, I must say.
+
+Besides these, I don't think I spent any serious amount of time on
+anything else. Other than, of course, work projects.
+
+## this site
+
+As is tradition, let's talk about this site and the blog. There have
+been some minor visual changes but I think it's largely stayed the same.
+I've found the aesthetic I like -- at least for now.
+
+I've re-added the [reading](/reading) page to publicly track books that
+I've read. More on that in a bit.
+
+As for blog posts this year, let's see:
+
+```console
+$ grep 'date: 2021' pages/blog/*.md | wc -l
+      13
+```
+
+Only 13! That's about 1 a month, and the lowest count per year so far.
+I'll attribute this to me dedicating more time to work, i.e. I've become
+a wagie cagie. Make of that what you will. That said, I think the
+quality of posts has considerably increased. I think.
+
+## other stuff
+
+I couldn't think of an appropriate heading for this section so "other
+stuff" it is: a catch-all category for general life-ey things.
+
+I read a grand-total of 9 books last year -- not particularly good. I'd
+like to at least double that this year. Some of my favourite reads were:
+_Dune_, _The Hero of Ages_, _The Enemy_ and _Permanent Record_. Big
+thanks to [Vishesh](https://awalvie.me) for _Dune_ and
+[Vishnu](https://twitter.com/thebluefowl) for _Permanent Record_!
+
+Language learning took an unfortunate hit, with basically zero progress
+in Russian. I did study it for a month or two in early 2021, but I won't
+count it for I've likely forgotten it all. I hope to restart where I
+left off, this year -- hopefully with the help of my new [productivity
+hacks](/blog/bujo) (which has been working wonders, by the way!).
+
+I had roughly about 6 - 7 months of time to hit the gym, i.e. when the
+gym wasn't closed off, and I managed to get some swole on. As of this
+writing, it's the "third wave" of COVID-19 and the gym's closed. Again.
+
+In other somewhat big news: I switched to an iPhone 13 mini. This
+probably warrants its own big post -- one full of copes and hopes. I
+will have to mull over it a bit to fully articulate my thoughts. I have
+a few other post ideas as well -- many that I planned on writing last
+year but never got around to. I often consider writing commentary on
+`$TECH_OUTRAGE_DU_JOUR` but everything that I want to say has usually
+already been said. I'm sure there'll be plenty of stuff I can be the
+_first_ to comment on in 2022.
+
+And speaking of 2022...
+
+## 2022 might be big
+
+This might be a big year for me, with some potentially huge life
+updates. New job, new adventures, the works. I'm looking forward to it.
+2021 was super eventful; 2022 just might top it.
+
+Here's a list of things I'm looking forward to this year:
+
+- Formula 1: New regulations! Williams back on top? Who knows?!
+- New albums: Oceans Ate Alaska, I See Stars (one can hope!), Invent
+  Animate.
+- Travel.
+- Reading _The Wheel of Time_ series.
+
+I'm going to close off this rambly post with a big thanks to everyone who's
+supporting forlater.email -- it made my whole last year. Maybe this year
+too. And you just might see another micro-SaaS from me!
+
+I'll see you soon.

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